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Take a trolley ride! SF 1906...
« on: January 29, 2010, 07:15:43 AM »
Apparently just days before the quake and fire...

http://www.flixxy.com/san-francisco-1905-historical-footage.htm
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Re: Take a trolley ride! SF 1906...
« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2010, 07:54:06 AM »
Cool historic music, too.
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Re: Take a trolley ride! SF 1906...
« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2010, 08:10:52 AM »
Most of what I got out of watching that was that the addition of traffic control devices and traffic laws has not altered the driving practices of San Franciscans, and that childhood fun back then consisted of hanging on the back of cars and running behind them.

The place was screwy then, and nothing has changed.

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Re: Take a trolley ride! SF 1906...
« Reply #3 on: January 29, 2010, 08:50:25 AM »
Looks like most every man is wearing a suit.
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Re: Take a trolley ride! SF 1906...
« Reply #4 on: January 29, 2010, 09:05:49 AM »
Looks like most every man is wearing a suit.

I've noticed that about most pictures from the previous turn of the century. EVERYONE wanted to be middle class. And by everyone, I mean both rich and poor aspired to middle class in values/style/etc...
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Re: Take a trolley ride! SF 1906...
« Reply #5 on: January 29, 2010, 12:48:45 PM »
Compare the behavior of everyone (vehicles, horses, pedestrians) to the way people walk in a crowd like a mall or casino.  Very similar behavior.

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Re: Take a trolley ride! SF 1906...
« Reply #6 on: January 29, 2010, 02:23:02 PM »
Looks like most every man is wearing a suit.

And you're saying the world hasn't become a better place.  =D
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Re: Take a trolley ride! SF 1906...
« Reply #7 on: January 29, 2010, 02:31:58 PM »
And you're saying the world hasn't become a better place.  =D

Is the "casualization" of life a good thing?

I can see arguments for greater casualization than depicted here. I also think we've gone too far- such is the nature of life.

We will likely swing back too far the other way in response.
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Re: Take a trolley ride! SF 1906...
« Reply #8 on: January 29, 2010, 02:52:28 PM »
Is the "casualization" of life a good thing?


I would argue so, yes. But that's a matter for another thread, or PMs if you want.
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Re: Take a trolley ride! SF 1906...
« Reply #9 on: January 29, 2010, 02:57:56 PM »
Cool historic music, too.

It was freakin' annoying.  Like when the 70's pimpin' mac-daddy hero finally scores the girl.

"Magnum Force" comes to mind. ;/
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Re: Take a trolley ride! SF 1906...
« Reply #10 on: January 29, 2010, 05:13:34 PM »
It was freakin' annoying.  Like when the 70's pimpin' mac-daddy hero finally scores the girl.

"Magnum Force" comes to mind. ;/
More like Shaft maybe. I thought it fit nicely for some reason.  :lol:
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Re: Take a trolley ride! SF 1906...
« Reply #11 on: January 29, 2010, 10:22:32 PM »
Suits, and hats go with them. I'm glad suits went away, they are horribly impractical, but I wouldn't mind a hat return, since hats are pretty practical in comparison.
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Re: Take a trolley ride! SF 1906...
« Reply #12 on: January 29, 2010, 11:30:47 PM »
Suits, and hats go with them. I'm glad suits went away, they are horribly impractical, but I wouldn't mind a hat return, since hats are pretty practical in comparison.

When did hats go away?  I must have missed that fashion pronouncement somehow. ???

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Re: Take a trolley ride! SF 1906...
« Reply #13 on: January 29, 2010, 11:51:42 PM »
Suits, and hats go with them. I'm glad suits went away, they are horribly impractical, but I wouldn't mind a hat return, since hats are pretty practical in comparison.

When did hats go out?  I must have missed that bulletin.

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Re: Take a trolley ride! SF 1906...
« Reply #14 on: January 30, 2010, 02:24:08 AM »
Suits, and hats go with them. I'm glad suits went away, they are horribly impractical, but I wouldn't mind a hat return, since hats are pretty practical in comparison.

Disagree that suits are impractical.  More pockets, more protection than a t-shirt.  They wouldn't be made as delicate or cut like they are now if the suit were still everyday wear.

I'm pretty much stuck in one every day, so maybe I'm a little more used to it.  But it ain't so bad, really.

Especially not when you're single and foreign.
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Re: Take a trolley ride! SF 1906...
« Reply #15 on: January 30, 2010, 03:37:59 AM »
The number of accidents must have been staggering with all those things going around.

Awesome vid though.

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Re: Take a trolley ride! SF 1906...
« Reply #16 on: January 30, 2010, 08:42:10 AM »
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When did hats go out?  I must have missed that bulletin.

Missed it? Nobody wears hats anymore. Just go watch a sidewalk or something, and compare to that san francisco video where practically everyone is wearing a brimmed hat of some sort. There is nowhere to hang one if you wear one, either, since there's no hat racks anywhere.
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Re: Take a trolley ride! SF 1906...
« Reply #17 on: January 30, 2010, 10:01:36 AM »
Missed it? Nobody wears hats anymore. Just go watch a sidewalk or something, and compare to that san francisco video where practically everyone is wearing a brimmed hat of some sort. There is nowhere to hang one if you wear one, either, since there's no hat racks anywhere.

I guess you haven't seen the hat hangers at my place, or the pegs in the rafters for the overflow.  Out here a hat is the first thing on in the morning and the last thing off at night.

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Re: Take a trolley ride! SF 1906...
« Reply #18 on: January 30, 2010, 11:36:23 AM »
That might be the case out there, but we are comparing downtown San Francisco, here.
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Re: Take a trolley ride! SF 1906...
« Reply #19 on: January 30, 2010, 12:54:55 PM »
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I guess you haven't seen the hat hangers at my place, or the pegs in the rafters for the overflow.  Out here a hat is the first thing on in the morning and the last thing off at night.

Well, yeah, I'd expect somebody with a history of skin cancer to do so.  I've taken to doing so, plus wearing lightweight long-sleeve shirts on really sunny days to keep the surgeon's knife away from my exterior again, too.
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Re: Take a trolley ride! SF 1906...
« Reply #20 on: January 31, 2010, 04:47:52 AM »
That might be the case out there, but we are comparing downtown San Francisco, here.

I miss that damn city terribly.

I was in California till this Tuesday, and spent a day or so there.  I really do miss it, even if many of the inhabitants are nuts.  I miss those nuts, too.
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Re: Take a trolley ride! SF 1906...
« Reply #21 on: January 31, 2010, 09:36:08 AM »
And now for the work safe musical portion of our thread...  =D

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Re: Take a trolley ride! SF 1906...
« Reply #22 on: January 31, 2010, 10:04:47 AM »
Missed it? Nobody wears hats anymore. Just go watch a sidewalk or something, and compare to that san francisco video where practically everyone is wearing a brimmed hat of some sort. There is nowhere to hang one if you wear one, either, since there's no hat racks anywhere.

Oh, people wear hats today. It's just that they're baseball caps rather than Fedoras. And we don't have hat racks because men today aren't couth enough to remove their hats when they come inside, or even when they sit down to eat. In 1906, it was unheard of for a man to wear a hat indoors. Back then, men also tipped their hats to women. Not now.
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Re: Take a trolley ride! SF 1906...
« Reply #23 on: January 31, 2010, 11:43:34 AM »
In 1975 wearing your hat in certain bars required you to either take it off and buy a round,,, or leave. :lol:
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Re: Take a trolley ride! SF 1906...
« Reply #24 on: January 31, 2010, 02:06:27 PM »
I think the kid at 5:44 is Marty McFly!   =D

Apparently the hills in SF were created by the earthquake, because is a long flat stretch of street.
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